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Einer Analyse des WSI-Tarifarchivs in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung zufolge verdienen sächsische Friseure ein Entgelt von 3,06 Euro pro Stunde. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern werde im Bereich Floristik 4,58 Euro pro Stunde bezahlt. Mit einem Tariflohn von 4,80 Euro gehört auch der Erwerbsgartenbau in Sachsen-Anhalt nicht zu den Branchen, in denen Spitzenlöhne gezahlt werden. Im privates Transport- und Verkehrsgewerbe (Speditionen) betrage der Tariflohn 5,12 Euro und Hotel- und Gaststättengewerbe NRW 5,34 Euro. Mit 5,25 Euro nimmt in Thüringen das Bäckerhandwerk schon etwas mehr mit nach Hause. Im Bewachungsgewerbe (Separatwachdienst) Schleswig-Holsteins wird den Angaben zufolge ein Tariflohn in Höhe von 5,69 Euro pro Stunde bezahlt. Die Systemgastronomie Ost (ohne Berlin-Ost) liegt bei 6,14 Euro die Stunde und das Gebäudereinigerhandwerk Ost bei 6,58 Euro. Nach Angaben der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung finden sich in älteren, seit Jahren ausgelaufenen Tarifverträgen sogar noch niedrigere Vergütungen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17688



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I'm setting up a campaign in Ireland to promote the tumor link to mobiles. I'm doin it 'gorillah' style with posters and flyers around Cork. I'm also hoping to use virrals on the internet.

I'm hoping that yous'll all help by doin the same in your Country and around the World.

Please forward it on as far as you can.

Thanx.



Brian O'D (Bod)

Post edited by: bod, at: 2008/04/09 03:44

While debate in the French National Assembly over the proposed GMO law rages, Ophelie Neiman, writing for Rue89, points out the divergences among European popular opinion, Member States' legislation and preferences and European Commission directives.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMO

The Associated Press reports, "Talk about a civics lesson: A high-school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen's criticism is well-founded."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008C.shtml

The Associated Press reports, "A German citizen thwarted in the U.S. courts is taking his allegations of abduction and torture at the hands of the CIA to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008B.shtml



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Bundesdatenschützer Schaar kritisiert die Weitergabe der personenbezogenen Sendungsdaten von Briefen, Päckchen und Paketen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27694/1.html



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Seit fast sechs Wochen ist ein Hartz IV-Empfänger im Hungerstreik und verlangt eine Entschuldigung vom Leiter des Jobcenters für unrechtmäßige Leistungskürzungen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27696/1.html



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Military Families Speak Out Rejects 12 Month Tours of Duty As Solution to an Unjustifiable War.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0410-09.htm



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Defenders of Wildlife: Bush Administration Again Favors Timber and Oil Industry By Proposing Weakened National Forest Management Regulations.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0410-06.htm



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The Associated Press reports, "US soldiers are committing suicide at record levels, young officers are abandoning their military careers, and the heavy use of forces in Iraq has made it harder for the military to fight conflicts that could arise elsewhere."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008M.shtml



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Steve Lannen reports for McClatchy Newspapers: "Barefoot in his yellow jumpsuit, the young detainee's eyes welled up as he described in a shaking voice how he landed in an Iraqi army detention facility on the outskirts of Baghdad. He was visiting his mother in the hospital when Iraqi soldiers raided the hospital and detained him and several others, said Thamer Hamed, 22. They handcuffed and blindfolded him and took him to a holding cell at a former US military base, ironically named Camp Constitution, that's been handed over to the Iraqi army. There, he was told that he was accused of murder. That was 45 days ago, and he still hadn't seen a judge, he said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008L.shtml

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Iraq: Detainees Describe Torture in Secret Jail

Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraq should thoroughly investigate and prosecute all government and security officials responsible, Human Rights Watch said.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/04/27/iraq-detainees-describe-torture-secret-jail


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US growth stalled and problems likely to be protracted IMF chief economist says.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1319&thisview=item

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IMF

Aijaz Ahmad on the Petraeus hearings and why the neo-cons target Iran. http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1321&thisview=item

 

Candidates jockey for position on Iraq


Tom Hayden: Iran is Washington's scapegoat for failure of surge. http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1320&thisview=item

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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By Sandra Perry

BISHOP'S Stortford residents have won another victory - for the FOURTH time - against a phone mast going up near their homes.

Herts and Essex Observer - Mast protest

Last night, Wednesday April 9, East Herts district councillors went against their officer's advice and threw out O2's plans for the 13m (42ft) column plus two equipment cabinets near the Great Hadham Road-Oriole Way roundabout.

The telecom giant's application was turned down at the development control committee because it would be intrusive and detrimental to the street scene and because of perceived concerns of local residents about the health risks.

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http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/hertsandessexobserver/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=305883

10. April 2008

Zu heute bekannt gewordenen Plänen von Innenminister Schäuble für einen zentralen Abhörschirm erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Wenn die Pläne von Innenminister Schäuble zutreffen sollten und umgesetzt werden, wäre das ein weiterer Schritt in den Überwachungsstaat und ein weiteres Element, die Trennung von Polizei und Geheimdiensten zu unterlaufen. Grund- und Freiheitsrechte und das aus den Lehren des Nationalsozialismus gewonnene Trennungsgebot mit dem Verweis auf Effizienzüberlegungen auszuhöhlen oder ganz außer Kraft zu setzen, ist nicht nur zynisch. Das ist ein Anschlag auf die Verfassung selbst. Wenn sich der Innenminister der Überwachungsphilosophie von Orwells "Big Brother" näher fühlt als dem Grundgesetz, ist er ein Verfassungsrisiko.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/abhoerzentrale-waere-weiterer-schritt-in-den-ueberwachungsstaat/



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Unsere Aktionen zeigen Erfolge, aber noch bevor die Pleite der Pharmaerbsenfirma Novoplant (www.umweltinstitut.org/pharmaerbse) in Gatersleben abgewickelt ist, entstand die nächste erschreckend dumme Idee in den Schaltzentralen der ostdeutschen Genmafia: Der oben erwähnte genmanipulierte Weizen soll im Schaugarten wachsen. Wer will in einem Weizenfeld mit "Publikumsverkehr" eine Ausbreitung der Genkonstrukte mit Antibiotikaresistenz verhindern?

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Novoplant

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Genweizen

Kaum ist der Agrosprit als Biomärchen enttarnt, schreien die Betreiber der agroindustriellen Anlagen nach Bestandsschutz und Erhaltungssubventionen. Nachdem die extrem negativen Auswirkungen industrieller Agrosprit-Produktion offenkundig sind, diskutiert die Politik wie der Irrweg korrigiert werden könnte. Derweil brennen die Regenwälder und Moore Asiens und Südamerikas weiter für den "Biosprit". Wir haben das Thema Agrokraftstoffe auf unserer Homepage aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet: www.umweltinstitut.org/agrosprit

 

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Am 13.3.2008 antwortet das Umweltinstitut München auf das Schreiben der KWS an die Beteiligten an der Aktion "Gentechnik - kommt nicht in die Rübe!" In diesem Schreiben werden die Argumente der Antragsteller einzeln widerlegt, um die KWS von ihrem Vorhaben abzubringen. Unseren Brief können Sie hier nachlesen: www.umweltinstitut.org/genruebe/uim Trotz der Risiken und Gefahren für Umwelt und Gesundheit konnten wir nicht verhindern, dass das Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit am 31.3.2008 die Freisetzung von genmanipulierten Zuckerrüben genehmigt hat.

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=KWS

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zuckerrüben

IG-Metall-Vizechef Detlef Wetzel, zitiert in „Gleicher Lohn. Hoffnung für Leiharbeiter“, Artikel von Eva Roth in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 10.4.08 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1316547


Aus: LabourNet, 10. April 2008

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Bsirske sieht soziale Grundrechte durch EuGH gefährdet

Die Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di sieht die sozialen Grundrechte in Deutschland und der EU durch mehrere Entscheidungen des Europäischen Gerichtshofes (EuGH) in Gefahr. "Die jüngste Rechtsetzungspraxis des EuGH zeigt unmissverständlich, wie dringend notwendig es ist, die soziale Dimension des europäischen Integrationsprozesses zurückzugewinnen", zitierte die "Berliner Zeitung" aus einem Brief des ver.di-Vorsitzenden Frank Bsirske an Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU). So hatten die EuGH-Richter Anfang April das Vergabegesetz des Landes Niedersachsen für unwirksam erklärt, das bei der Vergabe öffentlicher Aufträge von Unternehmen Tariftreue verlangte. Bsirske kritisierte: "Diese Spruchpraxis steht in direktem Widerspruch zur Rechtsprechung unseres Bundesverfassungsgerichts."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18023



Ypsilanti wirft Koch Lohndumping-Politik vor

Die hessische SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Andrea Ypsilanti hat kritisiert, dass die geschäftsführende Landesregierung unter Roland Koch (CDU) am 23. Mai im Bundesrat gegen eine Initiative gestimmt hat, die den Fortbestand von Tariftreuegesetzen in den Ländern im Hinblick auf die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs sichern sollte. "Die geschäftsführende Landesregierung hat damit für Lohndumping gestimmt und ist den Beschäftigten und mittelständischen Unternehmen in den Rücken gefallen", so Ypsilanti. "Herr Koch setzt seinen Kreuzzug gegen Mindestlöhne und damit für Armutslöhne fort." Ypsilanti kündigte einen Antrag für die kommende Plenarsitzung an, mit dem das Abstimmungsverhalten der Landesregierung missbilligt werden solle.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18033



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Mißbrauch von Ein-Euro-Jobs angeprangert. Wiesbadener Gewerkschafter: »Arbeitsgelegenheiten« oft weder zusätzlich noch in öffentlichem Interesse

„Wochenlang machten Medien Wirbel um einen spontanen Besuch von Wiesbadener Gewerkschaftern bei sogenannten »Ein-Euro-Jobbern« an unterschiedlichen Einsatzorten (jW berichtete). Am Dienstag haben sich die unter öffentlichen Beschuß geratenen Akteure mit einer Pressekonferenz in der hessischen Landeshauptstadt selbst zu Wort gemeldet. Sie schilderten Mißstände, nannten Namen und zogen politische Schlußfolgerungen…“ Artikel von Katrin Küfer in junge Welt vom 09.04.2008, dokumentiert beim Sozialforum Wiesbaden (pdf) http://www.sozialforum-wiesbaden.de/doku/einEuroJob_jw_09042008.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 10. April 2008

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Ins Wespennest gestochen. Wiesbaden: Lokalpolitiker schäumen wegen Aufklärungsaktion zu »Ein-Euro-Jobs«

Für einen Euro reguläre Arbeit. Wiesbadener Hartz-IV-Umsetzung umstritten

„Die Stadt hat jetzt gute Noten für die Umsetzung der Hartz-IV-Gesetze bekommen. Gleichzeitig aber hält die Kritik an der Praxis der sogenannten Ein-Euro-Jobs an. Weit über tausend Ein-Euro-Jobs gibt es in Wiesbaden. Sie sind jetzt ins Gerede gekommen, nachdem Mitglieder des Sozialforums eigenmächtig Kontrollaktionen durchgeführt hatten und dafür heftig kritisiert wurden. Doch inzwischen melden sich immer mehr Betroffene zur Wort…“ Artikel von Manfred Knispel in Wiesbadener Tagblatt vom 26.04.2008 http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=3258560


"Es ist Strategie, vom Kernproblem abzulenken". Gewerkschafter Veit Wilhelmy und Horst Schmitthenner beklagen die Null-Reaktion auf Hartz-IV-Missstände

„Nächste Woche ist der 1. Mai. Früher ein Kampftag der Arbeiterbewegung. Dass es auch heute noch Ausbeutung und soziale Missstände gibt, gegen die es anzukämpfen lohnt, davon sind die Gewerkschafter Veit Wilhelmy und Horst Schmitthenner überzeugt…“ Artikel von Heinz-Jürgen Hauzel in Wiesbadener Tagblatt vom 26.04.2008 http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=3258495&rub=1


Proteste gegen 1-Euro-Jobs & „weisse Schafe

Ausgenutzt und chancenlos - der Unsinn der Ein-Euro-Jobs

Text und Video der Panorama-Sendung vom 17. April 2008 http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2008/panoramaeineurojobs2.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Zynismus pur

„Samstag lief die kritische Panorama-Sendung im Fernsehen, und Dienstag folgte - zack - die fristlose Kündigung: Der Ein-Euro-Jobber Wilfried Lüderitz hat es gewagt aufzumucken und wurde dafür abgestraft. Weil er seine Sicht über seine Arbeit und seine Ausbeutung publik machte…“ Kommentar von Gaby Buschlinger in Frankfurter Rundschau Wiesbaden vom 24.04.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt_und_hessen/nachrichten/wiesbaden/?em_cnt=1324342


Razzia-ähnliche Überprüfung bei städtischer Beschäftigungsgesellschaft wegen zweifelhafter Ein-Euro-Jobs

„Der Panorama Bericht über den fragwürdigen Einsatz von Ein-Euro-Jobbern bei der Reinigung von Schulen in Leverkusen hat erste Konsequenzen. Am Montag, den 21. April 2008, besuchten sechs Mitarbeiter der Hartz-IV-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leverkusen (AGL) die städtische Beschäftigungsgesellschaft Job Service Leverkusen, um alle 250 Ein-Euro-Jobs auf die erforderlichen Kriterien "öffentliches Interesse" und "Zusätzlichkeit" zu untersuchen…“ Meldung beim NDR http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2008/panoramaeineurojobs10.html


Wie gut sind unsere Sozialämter: Wie bewerten Sie Ihre ARGE, Ihr Sozialamt oder Ihre Arbeitsagentur? ARGEn online bewerten

sozialhilfe24.de führt eine online-Bewertung der ARGEn, Sozialämter und Arbeitsagenturen durch: http://www.sozialhilfe24.de/amt_ergebnis.php


Aus: LabourNet, 28. April 2008



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„Der Skandal um die Videoüberwachung von Beschäftigten greift um sich. Auch beim größten europäischen Fleischverarbeiter, der Firma Tönnies im nordrhein-westfälischen Rheda-Wiedenbrück, soll es einem ARD-Bericht zufolge eine umfangreiche Videoüberwachung geben. Bilder, die dem Magazin Report Mainz zugespielt wurden, zeigen Aufnahmen, auf denen unter anderem Frauen zu sehen sind, die bis auf die Unterwäsche ausgezogen sind. Dabei soll es sich, so berichtete das Magazin, um den Umkleidebereich bei Tönnies handeln. Zudem solle es auf den Herren-Toiletten versteckte Kameras geben, die rund um die Uhr alles aufnähmen…“ Artikel von Antje Schüddemage in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 09.04.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1315951


Aus: LabourNet, 10. April 2008



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Consortium News
by Ivan Eland

04/09/08

The trillions of dollars poured into the military-industrial complex have spilled over into other parts of the U.S. political system — financing think tanks, media outlets and politicians...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/040908a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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USA Today

04/10/08

The United States is hundreds of millions of dollars behind in dues to international organizations ranging from the United Nations peacekeeping office to the agency that sets and enforces global labor standards. The arrears have grown as the United States has fallen short on payments for missions it is obligated to support under international agreements...

http://tinyurl.com/6yaptp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CBC in Montreal. The story on microwaves from cell antennas and WiFI was aired last Sunday night in Canada. It is posted on our Web site for you [ http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/ ] to see if you are interested. The story had a big impact. 3/4 of a million viewers.

http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/decouverte/index.shtml

There are two video sections to watch.

Alasdair



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Vienna - Oakton
Source: Fairfax County Times
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 2008

The Vienna Town Council voted 4 to 3 April 7 to allow wireless companies to locate antennas on water towers if there is no adequate alternative.

One of Vienna's three water towers is located in the center of a residential neighborhood on Tapawingo Road, prompting concerns from neighbors. Although the law is intended to increase cell phone coverage for Vienna, Dr. Fayez Saleeb is worried about its other implications.

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http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2008/apr/09/vienna-cells-water-towers/

Truthout contributor Bill Henderson writes: "Humanity today, collectively, must face the uncomfortable fact that industrial civilization itself has become the principal driver of global climate. If we stay our present course, using fossil fuels to feed a growing appetite for energy-intensive lifestyles, we will soon leave the climate of the Holocene, the world of human history. The eventual response to doubling preindustrial atmospheric CO2 likely would be a nearly ice-free planet."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040908EA.shtml



Warming Trends Rise in Large Ocean Areas

Grant McCool of Reuters reports: "Warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to marine life and fisheries, a UN-backed environmental study said."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040908EB.shtml



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Bill Moyers Journal investigates the empty shelves at US food banks, and asks, "As food prices go sky high and millions go hungry in America, why are tax dollars being spent on farmers who don't farm?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908U.shtml



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Ahmed Rasheed and Wisam Mohammed of Reuters report: "Twenty people were killed in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday, security sources said, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908R.shtml



Battle in Sadr City

Bill Moyers Journal: "Just back from being under fire in Sadr City this week, award-winning journalist Leila Fadel, Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy, gives viewers on-the-ground analysis of the latest events and a close-up look at the state of the war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041608U.shtml



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7330/


Informant: jensenmk

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April 10, 2008

TELSTRA'S national electro magnetic energy manager Mike Wood is adamant there is no health risk from mobile phone towers.

Mr Wood was due to attend a public meeting last night to meet Banora Point residents worried about EME radiation health risks from a planned mobile phone tower on a hill above Pioneer Park, Fraser Drive.

Tweed Shire Council requires Telstra to demonstrate community consultation has occurred as part of its approvals process for the tower application.

Telstra argues the new tower will improve mobile phone and internet coverage in Banora Point.

Banora Point residents led by Kevin Moloney have provided more than 150 letters of objection against the tower and held anti-tower rallies.

Mr Moloney has argued other countries have tightened up restrictions on phone towers due to concern about cancer risks.

He has pointed out that the NSW government aims to restrict the towers near schools.

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http://www.tweednews.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3769109



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Crocker claimed that militias loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had alienated many Iraqis, and Iran's reputation suffered because Iraqis take it as a given that the militias are backed by Iran.

http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_8862807?nclick_check=1



Petraeus Says Iranian-Backed Groups Are Greatest Threat to Iraq

The so-called "special groups,'' which are funded, trained and armed by Iran, played a "destructive role'' in the recent clashes between extremist militias and Iraqi government forces in Basra and Baghdad, Petraeus said.

http://tinyurl.com/44m6tv



Iranian Government Slams US Over Fresh Iraq Accusations

"This report indicates that despite the surge, whose result has been more killing, the Americans have not been able to reach their announced goals in Iraq," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement.

http://tinyurl.com/42xm8s



Matthew Rothschild: Petraeus Prepares the Battlefield for Iran

I watched much of General Petraeus's testimony. And what jumped out at me were the bellicose comments he made about Iran.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx040808



Experts, Senators Diverge Over Ways to Impose Tougher Sanctions on Iran

Despite the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran had halted part of its nuclear weapons program, there was no question the country was pursuing nuclear weapons.

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002700234.html



Iran's nuclear armament will aid Islamic terror

"Iran's nuclear armament poses an existential threat to Israel, because it will provide a 'nuclear umbrella' to fundamentalist Islamic terror," Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3529763,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Muqtada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Rothschild
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Intelligence+Estimate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=islamic+terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Manufacturing+Consent+For+War+With+Iran

The latest battles in Basra, Iraq's largest city and a vital oil port, provide ample examples of misleading and manipulative practice in corporate journalism today. One commonly used tactic is to describe events using self-styled or "official" terminology, which deliberately confuses the reader by giving no real indication or analysis of what is actually happening.

http://tinyurl.com/3n2pcv


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramzy+Baroud

Video

Somebody at CNBC, billed as "America's business channel," made a mistake. They allowed Jim Rogers, investor and buddy to George Soros, to get on and slam the Federal Reserve.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19705.htm

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Abolish the Fed
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/foss1.html

Freedom From the Fed Fix
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/epstein-g2.html

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Perspective on the big investment banker give away
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/498.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Rogers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Soros

Government Is The Largest Employer

By Paul Craig Roberts

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19702.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

By AFP

"If history can take me back, I will kiss the statue of Saddam Hussein which I helped pull down," Khalil told reporters on the fifth anniversary of the statue's toppling.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19701.htm



Yes, The Occupation Has Begun

This Was Media Manipulation on a Grand Scale?

The photographs tell the story...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=toppling+Saddam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anniversary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media+manipulation

http://tinyurl.com/3kqoz5


Informant: goscott44

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Top Bush Advisers Approved "Enhanced Interrogation"

Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Bogue report for ABC News, "In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008K.shtml

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Ten lessons from recent torture hearings

ANP: Lawyers who approved "enhanced interrogation tactics" are under increasing pressure to explain them.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1876



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7331/36/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Phillips

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2a14343624c97695?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=elephant

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/how-should-isps-tell-you-if-they-want-to-track-your-surfing/index.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQL_CW5nx0

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How to Prevent Vaccine Injury

by Byron Richards

It is a colossal failure on the part of our government to not warn parents of the actual risks associated with vaccines. The blind insistence that vaccines are safe and effective is not supported by science, at least for a significant number of our children. There are now 25,000 children per year developing autism (1 in 150), a problem that has expanded in direct proportion to the increase in vaccinations. How do you know if your child is at risk?.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron54.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=autism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Richards

By OLU ALEMORU, Staff Writer

10.APR.08

Residents of South L.A. neighborhoods win delay over fears about possible ill effects of telecommunications devices.

Residents in the Windsor Hills/View Park community are celebrating for the moment, after Los Angeles planning officials delayed the planned installation of a cell phone antenna facility across the street from a nursery school.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/3jml8n

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/64ab29516a482e15?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/040908b.html

Congressional Authority to Limit U.S. Military Operations in Iraq
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8dd516d0ad97c794?hl=en


Informant: Duane Roberts



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kenny/kenny82.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kenny

http://www.lewrockwell.com/corrigan/corrigan90.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/corrigan

First it was the 'dead enders,' then it was al-Qaeda in Iraq, now it's the 'Special Groups' – but when will it end?

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12663


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard56.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dictatorship
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/bovard

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/inflation-monster.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rockwell

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0409-04.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/09/8176/

It's Time to Challenge Gen. Petraeus
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/09/8169/

Petraeus Testimony Contradicts What Troops on the Ground Report, Say Iraq Veterans Attending Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0409-06.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IVAW
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Andrews

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/09/8192/

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Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security

David Adam, writing for The Guardian UK, reports, "Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the UN's top humanitarian official warned yesterday after two days of rioting in Egypt over the doubling of prices of basic foods in a year and protests in other parts of the world." And, TIME's Kathie Klarreich reports: "Haitians are no strangers to hunger. But even the resilience of the hemisphere's poorest citizens can be pushed too far, and with world food prices spiking this year due to shrinking harvests, burgeoning demand and skyrocketing fuel prices, it should be little surprise that Haiti is once again erupting in angry violence."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008F.shtml



Food and South Asia's Future

J. Sri Raman writes for Truthout: "The way to the political future of three major South Asian countries now lies through the stomachs of their poor millions. Escalating food prices may have far-reaching consequences for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, each of which is currently passing through a crucial political phase."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041108E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+prices
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=J.+Sri+Raman

Maddy Sauer reports for ABC News, "Yet another woman has come forward saying she was brutally raped in Iraq while working for the U.S. contractor Kellogg Brown Root (KBR)."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908E.shtml

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+mom

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=KBR

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maddy+Sauer

Jerry Markon, writing for The Washington Post, reports, "An accused 'enemy combatant' told an appellate court yesterday that a controversial Justice Department memorandum exploring the legal boundaries of military interrogations proves that his detention was illegal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908D.shtml

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention

Writing for Truthout, Thomas D. Williams reports, "US Air Force Reserve Maj. Thomas 'Buzz' Rempfer, a 43-year-old Connecticut native, is hoping he is nearing the end of nearly a decade's perpetual and unprecedented battle with the Pentagon over the legality, safety and effectiveness of mandatory anthrax vaccinations."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908A.shtml




http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anthrax+vaccination

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+D.+Williams

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/ad260aba74342949?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink

http://quintessenz.at/d/000100004316



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Videoüberwachung

10:54 - 09 April 2008

VIGILANT residents are celebrating after winning the first local victory against a phone mast firm.

Their diligence paid off when it came to persuading the planning inspector to dismiss the Orange phone company's appeal for an eight-foot mast in Gurney Court Road at its junction with Sandpit Lane in St Albans.

The residents had used the fact that the Y-junction was an accident blackspot and was used by the police for mobile speed cameras and a hard-standing had been put there for that purpose.

Campaigner Richard Morgan of Gurney Court Road said: "Once we informed the police of the mast plan they wrote to the inspector objecting on the grounds that a mast and its cabinet would obscure the sightlines they needed for their cameras.

"This was what won the day for us but unfortunately Orange won't go away. They are likely to come back and try again close by."

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/5t4ls9

By Verity Ward

RESIDENTS have voiced their anger over plans to site a phone mast next to a South Tyneside nature reserve.

Mobile phone company O2 has made an application to the council to build a mast in Sunniside Lane, Cleadon, which leads on to Cleadon Hills.

However, ward councillors and residents say they want the plans to be thrown out.

Conservative Coun Jeff Milburn said: "It's ridiculous putting it in the location they want. This site is entirely inappropriate.

Read More...
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Anger-over-plan-for-mobile.3960086.jp

by Joan Veon

What we have to understand is that in order to integrate the world economically, all that remains are the structural changes: from national accounting rules to global accounting rules, from national clearing and settlement to a global system of clearing and settlement; from national regulatory laws to a global system of regulatory laws; and to bring the U.S. into a 21st century global regulatory system by tearing down the current system and globalizing all our financial and securities laws. In other words, the very last vestiges of our economic sovereignty are being changed before our very eyes because of trumped up credit crisis........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Veon/joan51.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis
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The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

04/08/08

General David Petraeus’ testimony Tuesday and Wednesday of this week will be another chapter in U.S. foreign policy’s long-running ‘is the surge working?’ debate. The General and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will offer up some good news counterpoints to the not-so-good news out of Basra from the last weekend of March. But in the ways that matter, there’s no need to debate in the present tense — the surge isn’t working, it’s already worked, and the question is what the Democrats plan to do about it. To evaluate the surge, you have to consider its goals...

http://tinyurl.com/5kmrnv



A convenient culprit

Guardian [UK]
by Dilip Hiro

04/08/08

Early reports suggest that in his testimony to a congressional committee today, General David Petraeus will claim that the Iranians assisted the Mahdi Army militia to fight the forces of Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the recent week-long battle in Basra. He is expected to offer this “evidence” to oppose any reduction in US troops in Iraq.This is the latest instance of Washington dangling the Iranian menace to persist in its disastrous course in Iraq, starting with its illegal invasion of the country on false pretences...

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dilip_hiro/2008/04/a_convenient_culprit.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Did Petraeus part ways with the neocons?

The Real Story examines General Petraeus' testimony and the contending forces in Iraq.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1314&thisview=item



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mahdi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Yglesias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dilip+Hiro

Tennessean
by staff

04/08/08

It is easy these days to look at TV programming and feel the urge to clean house. Crime shows lay out the most grisly of acts committed by real or imaginary violent criminals. Reality shows peer into the most embarrassingly personal details (again, real or imaginary) of the lives of would-be or former celebrities. But when the government decides it should do the cleaning in the name of public decency, everyone should be concerned about where we are headed as a nation. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the case of the Federal Communications Commission vs. Fox Television Stations, in which the agency fined Fox over ‘fleeting’ use of profanities on live awards shows aired in 2002 and 2003. … For the record, the profanities were variations on the ‘f-word’ and ’s…,’ uttered by Bono, Nicole Richie and Cher, words this newspaper chooses not to spell out — the operative word for purposes of this editorial being ‘chooses’...

http://tinyurl.com/4zcp7u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

04/08/08

Hungry Haitians stormed the presidential palace Tuesday to demand the resignation of President Rene Preval over soaring food prices and U.N. peacekeepers battled rioters with rubber bullets and tear gas. Rioters were chased away from the presidential palace but by late afternoon had left trails of destruction across Port-au-Prince...

http://tinyurl.com/6ksmb9



Protests over food prices paralyze Haitian capital

Canada.com

04/08/08

Haitians erected flaming barricades and tried to storm the National Palace on Tuesday as protests against rising food prices, which have killed five people, paralyzed the impoverished nation’s capital.Some demonstrators in the city carried empty plates to show the government they had nothing to eat.U.N. peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to control the angry mob after the protesters used large steel garbage containers as battering rams to try to smash the gates of the whitewashed palace in downtown Port-au-Prince, witnesses said...

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=ef075a13-294f-48f3-92b2-213007fdc2bc&k=27443


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starving Haitians Riot As Food Prices Soar
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/10/8205/

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How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti

Raj Patel: International trade rules have ravaged Haiti's domestic food production.
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1358&thisview=item



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+prices
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank
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ACTION ALERT

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

By Climate Ark & Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/ April 8, 2008

TAKE ACTION Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end

http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=australia_tasmania_climate

Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests, even as their government promotes forest protection internationally to combat climate change. Australia's new government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has ratified Kyoto, appears genuinely committed to global climate change policy, and speaks often of how Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the world must protect primary forests to solve global climate change. Yet in an act of unseemly doublespeak, the country that is perhaps most impacted by climate change continues to log its last centuries old trees found in ancient forest ecosystems vital for holding both carbon and water. Why is forest protection a good idea internationally but not for Australia's much reduced and climate impacted natural habitats? Australia's new government must be called upon to stop their hypocrisy and end logging of their own old growth forests as a keystone response to climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem sustainability.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=australia_tasmania_climate

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/04/alert_protest_australias_conti.asp

P.S. The South Korea alert to which you will be forwarded has been updated with nearly 100 more target emails. Please send that alert as well.

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ACTION ALERT UPDATE

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

FOREST/CLIMATE ALERT!

Final Push Needed to Stop Australia's Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper Consumption

By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark, http://www.climateark.org/ and Forest Protection Portal, http://forests.org/ August 30, 2008

TAKE ACTION Gunns of Australia's controversial plans to build a huge pulp mill to make disposable consumer items largely from clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us together make a final decisive push to warn off potential investors and environmental approvals and achieve its permanent withdrawal

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_climate

Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to continue clearcutting of Tasmania's ancient forests to feed a massive new paper pulp mill, appear to be near final collapse. Gunns is scrambling to raise the cash needed to build the AU$2 billion pulp mill and to meet a looming federal government environmental approval deadline. Chief executive of Leighton Holdings, the proposed builder of the mill, has even stated the project is dead. Join us in supporting massive local protests, and calling upon Australia's Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to not extend the environmental approval process, and for the several European pulp interests to steer clear of funding the project or risk years of protest and conflict. Let's join together with local protests and ensure the Gunns pulp mill proposal is permanently withdrawn from consideration.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_climate

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/08/alert_final_push_needed_to_sto.asp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ancient+forest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climateark.org

http://www.peta.de/aktionsaufrufe/fordern_sie_den_wwf_auf_keine.1524.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iditarod

Alister Doyle of Reuters reports: "A slowdown of deforestation from the Amazon to the Congo basin could generate billions of dollars every year for developing nations as part of a UN scheme to fight climate change, a study showed on Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040808EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alister+Doyle

Jeannine Aversa of The Associated Press reports: "Worries about a deep recession - not a shallow one - drove Federal Reserve policymakers to slash a key interest rate last month, meeting minutes show."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040808T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeannine+Aversa

Almost 1 million people will be put on the "watch list" by years end. This is incredible and utterly insane. How can the government expect us as citizens to believe that 1 in every 350 people need to be watched.

http://tinyurl.com/6n5s8q


From Information Clearing House

Ugandans who want a career in the United States military, can sign up at the annual convention of the Uganda North American Association, organisers say.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200804070356.html


From Information Clearing House

Lieberman was in typical form this morning, prefacing his questions with high-flown, melodramatic praise for Petraeus.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/08/lieberman-tells-petraeus_n_95634.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus

By Howard Zinn

Still, in today's climate of endless war and uncontrolled greed, drawing upon the heritage of the 1930s would be a huge step forward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19699.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endless+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Howard+Zinn

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=50830&sectionid=351020602


Informant: Kev Hall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/d2ad46c7e0581a80?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=APFN+-+mini-nukes+and+micro-nukes&btnG=Google+Search



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nukes

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/08/exceptionalism/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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The formula for a police state

Stress
by Anthony Gregory

04/07/08

Having a double standard that favors police is the formula for a police state. Whether in investigations, arrests, trials, or punishment, police should never get away with anything for which a member of the public would face severe consequences. A police state is at our doorstep when the public fears the government and law enforcers enjoy impunity for negligent or malicious behavior. Freedom and justice are empty promises without equality under the law, including for the lawmen...

http://thestressblog.com/2008/04/07/the-formula-for-a-police-state/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anthony+Gregory

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt325.html

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Iraqi Cleric Sadr Threatens 'Open War'

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr has threatened "open war" if the crackdown by Iraqi and US forces against his loyalists continues.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1313362,00.html?f=rss



Iranian ambassador lashes U.S. offensive in Baghdad's Sadr City

"We criticize the pounding of cities and the siege of people, which will aggravate the situations and make things worse," ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi told a news conference at the Iranian Embassy.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/20/content_8012630.htm



Iran: Claims of support for Iraqi insurgency unfounded

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Iran Thursday to end its backing for Shia militias. She also told reporters in Washington that she has no plans to meet Iran's foreign minister at the conference next week.

http://tinyurl.com/3fqtl2



Purple Patch: The echo chamber of history

The Iranians used to call the United States the 'centre of world arrogance', and I would laugh at this, but I have begun to understand what it means.

http://tinyurl.com/4t43f9



Battle to retake Basra was 'complete disaster'

The British-trained Iraqi Army's attempt to retake Basra from militiamen was an "unmitigated disaster at every level", British commanders have disclosed.

http://tinyurl.com/5srxem



Rice: Muqtada a Coward

Najaf Tense; Veterans Depressed, Unemployed

By Juan Cole

Rice has her 'bring'em on moment' in Iraq, talking trash to the Mahdi Army and calling Muqtada al-Sadr a 'coward.' Muqtada al-Sadr eluded Saddam Hussein for 4 years after Saddam killed his father and two elder brothers; and in 2004 he twice took on the US military. He may be a lot of things, but he is not a coward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19780.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Muqtada
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/fuller2.html



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